twifaced
adjEtymology From twi- + faced.
- These two of whom I tell, from their first hours. Or, like a twi-faced urn, which doth outflow With the same spring, […]1860, B. P., Alice: and other poems, by B.P., page 2:
- “E'en so, Æneas, do I swear by Stars, and Sea, and Earth, By twi-faced Janus, and the twins Latona brought to birth, […]1876, Publius Vergilius Maro, The Æneids of Virgil, done into English verse by W. Morris, page 353:
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Obsolete Two-faced; deceitful.
- There is no time to measure motion by, There time is swallowed in eternity: Wry-mouth'd disdain, and corner-hunting lust, And twy-fac'd fraud, [...]1861, Francis Quarles, Quarles' emblems: